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Flawless Strengthens its Innovation with Top-Tier Science and Research Team Additions to Build Next Generation Filmmaking Tools

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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In a joint statement, Flawless Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Scott Mann and Nick Lynes, expressed, "Gaurav along with the entire Flawless research and science team, constitute an extraordinary ensemble of brilliance and innovation.

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  • In a joint statement, Flawless Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Scott Mann and Nick Lynes, expressed, "Gaurav along with the entire Flawless research and science team, constitute an extraordinary ensemble of brilliance and innovation.
  • Prior to joining Flawless, Bharaj was VP of Research at the AI Foundation, where he led generative science research to create virtual humans and worked as a senior researcher at Technicolor - Research and Innovation, and Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Germany.
  • These partnerships allow Flawless to harness the brilliance of these esteemed academic institutions and tap into their vast intellectual resources.
  • "Powered by the brilliance of our science and research teams, Flawless is set to establish new benchmarks in the field of generative AI, propelling the entertainment industry into an unprecedented era of innovation.

Twelve Labs Raises $12 Million Seed Extension and Teams With Oracle to Bring Foundation AI Model for Video Understanding to Market

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Monday, December 5, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Twelve Labs, the video search and understanding company, today announced that amid significant product advances, the company has closed a $12 million seed extension round, following its initial seed fundraise last spring. This round brings the company's total seed funding to $17 million. Radical Ventures led the latest round, with participation from existing investors including early seed lead Index Ventures. New investors include Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and Spring Ventures, as well as notable angels Jay Simons (General Partner at Bond and former President of Atlassian), Nicolas Dessaigne (Founder and former CEO of Algolia), and Lukas Biewald (Founder and CEO of Weights & Biases).

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  • Twelve Labs is positioned to build the world's leading foundation model for videos, forever changing how we interact with this medium."
  • To help ensure that speed and quality are not compromised, Twelve Labs has chosen Oracle to provide the AI cloud infrastructure capacity required to bring its foundation AI model to market.
  • Working with Oracle, Twelve Labs will be able to rapidly scale and become the de facto solution for video understanding.
  • "With our powerful foundation model for video, we are well positioned to advance video understanding and to unlock the full potential of video and creativity."

Record-Breaking Registrants and Technical Papers for 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Friday, July 1, 2022
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --  2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the largest gathering of professionals from across the world and from every aspect of the computer vision, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) industries, successfully concluded this week, breaking records with over 10,250 conference registrants and 2000 technical papers presented.

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  • Unity Computer Vision showcased "Digital Humans for Computer Vision" - a proprietary digital human generator was developed that contains highly-parametric and simulation-ready 3D human assets.
  • The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision and pattern recognition conference.
  • The Computer Vision Foundation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster and support research on all aspects of computer vision.
  • Together with the IEEE Computer Society, it co-sponsors the two largest computer vision conferences: CVPR and the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

CVPR 2022 Program to Reveal New Research on Computer Vision, AI, and Machine Learning at the 19 - 24 June 2022 Global Conference

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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CVPR 2022 conference program summary:

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  • CVPR 2022 conference program summary:
    Hosted by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF), CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses.
  • The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision and pattern recognition conference.
  • The Computer Vision Foundation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster and support research on all aspects of computer vision.
  • Together with the IEEE Computer Society, it co-sponsors the two largest computer vision conferences: CVPR and the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

Kakao Brain Brings Big Improvements to the Metaverse with New Face-Swap Technology

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Monday, May 9, 2022
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An accurate and consistent identity gradient[3] is essential to seamlessly changing a person's identity without sacrificing the image's high quality.

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  • An accurate and consistent identity gradient[3] is essential to seamlessly changing a person's identity without sacrificing the image's high quality.
  • "We are proud and excited to unveil the groundbreaking face-swapping technology, 'Smooth-Swap,' to the world," said Kim Il-doo, CEO of Kakao Brain.
  • Kakao Brain is a world-leading AI company boasting unparalleled AI technologies and research & development networks.
  • [3]Identity gradient is a learning signal telling the face-swapping model which part must be tuned to change the person's identity accurately.

Terminus Group Appoints Chief Scientist, Ling Shao, Strengthening AIoT Deployment

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Friday, April 22, 2022
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As part of Terminus Group's dedicated global "Talents Plan", Dr. Shao will further enhance the strength of the company's R&D capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

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  • As part of Terminus Group's dedicated global "Talents Plan", Dr. Shao will further enhance the strength of the company's R&D capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
  • As a matter of course, the majority of managers and technical team members at Terminus Group are alumni of the world's top universities and well-known research institutions.
  • Following his appointment as Terminus Group's Chief Scientist, Dr. Ling Shao commented: "After decades of development, AI has evolved from the computing and perception stage to what is now seen as the cognitive stage.
  • From 2018 to 2021, he was the founding CEO and Chief Scientist of the UAE's Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI).

Kakao Brain Unveils Efficient Text-to-Image Generator, RQ-Transformer, on GitHub

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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Boasting the highest number of parameters with 3.9 billion in Korea as well as the fastest sampling speed among Kakao Brain's text-to-image AI models, RQ-Transformer outperforms the 1.4-billion-parameter minDALL-E, another open-source text-to-image model created by Kakao Brain, with double the sampling speed.

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  • Boasting the highest number of parameters with 3.9 billion in Korea as well as the fastest sampling speed among Kakao Brain's text-to-image AI models, RQ-Transformer outperforms the 1.4-billion-parameter minDALL-E, another open-source text-to-image model created by Kakao Brain, with double the sampling speed.
  • "The computer generating images based on human commands signifies the tech's ability to distinguish and understand the intention behind the demand," said Kim Il-doo, CEO of Kakao Brain.
  • Kakao Brain is a world-leading AI company boasting unparalleled AI technologies and research & development networks.
  • As of November 2021, GitHub is the largest source code host with over 73 million developers and 200 million repositories.

Twelve Labs Launches Transformative AI-powered Video Search Platform

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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Twelve Labs , the video search and understanding company, today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind cloud-native suite of APIs that enable comprehensive video search in less than one second.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Twelve Labs , the video search and understanding company, today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind cloud-native suite of APIs that enable comprehensive video search in less than one second.
  • The company's proprietary video understanding AI system can locate exact moments almost instantly across massive video archives and makes video search as fast and easy as CTRL-F.
    Index Ventures led Twelve Labs' $5 million seed funding round and Index partner Kelly Toole joined the board of directors.
  • "And yet, despite their ubiquity, video search today relies heavily on simple things like keywords, tags, and titles.
  • Twelve Labs' groundbreaking AI technology recently won first place in the world's largest competition for video understanding, the ICCV VALUE (Video and Language Understanding Evaluation) Challenge - Video Retrieval Track.

Socionext and Tohoku University Significantly Accelerate Deep Learning-based SLAM Processing

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
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SLAM can be classified into two main types according to the sensing method used to acquire 3D information around an object.

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  • SLAM can be classified into two main types according to the sensing method used to acquire 3D information around an object.
  • Image recognition technology has made remarkable progress in recent years with the introduction of deep learning, and the use of deep learning has become an important factor in the evolution of Visual SLAM.
  • This can make practical processing difficult for edge-type SoC devices with limited CPU processing power.
  • Socionext will accumulate experiences from this research work and establish Visual SLAM technology as one of the offerings for the company's custom SoC solutions.

Toyota Research Institute Announces Machine Learning Advances at the International Conference on Computer Vision

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Monday, October 11, 2021
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LOS ALTOS, Calif., Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced the acceptance of six research papers in the field of machine learning at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

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  • LOS ALTOS, Calif., Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced the acceptance of six research papers in the field of machine learning at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
  • As the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) started, TRI shared six papers demonstrating TRI's robust research in machine learning, including geometric deep learning for 3D vision, self-supervised learning and simulation to real or "sim-to-real" transfer.
  • "Within the field of machine learning, scalable supervision is our focus," said Adrien Gaidon, head of TRI's Machine Learning team.
  • About Toyota Research Institute Toyota Research Institute (TRI) conducts research to advance robotics, energy and materials, machine learning, and human-centered artificial intelligence.